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Thomas at the begging of the film was very devoted to swing dancing.Thomas treated Arvid differently because he was crippled.None of them liked the hj in the begging but thomas slowly started to like them.But when peter got caught to go to the hj Thomas joined with him.When Thomas joined the hj he slowly started to like it but peter hated it and arvid did to.Thomas started to be rude to Peter and Arvid.Thomas started to not be in the movie as much he was turning into a nazi.Thomas and a nazi group crashed a swing dance party.Peter and Thomas started to fight,Thomas was chocking Peter but let go and told him to run but he said no.The hjs came and got him and put him in a truck and took him to a camp.

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At first Thomas was a normal swing kid who wore loose clothes and had long hair. He also listened to swing music. But after they stole the radio from the bakery and Peter was forced to join the HJ, because of this Thomas joined to because he didn't want to leave his friend behind. Thomas joined and started realizing the benefits of being an HJ so he went along with it. Eventually he started to get brainwashed by the HJ and started believing the ideology of the Nazi's. He also found new friends in the HJ and slowly drifted away from Peter. But the main reason he joined was for Peter and for the benefits of being a HJ. He thought that he would never be brainwashed. But he eventually was and fully believed in the Nazis.

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Thomas at the beginning of the film was very devoted to swing dancing.  And promised to his friends Arvid and Peter that he would also be part of the swing dancing with them.  But then when Peter had to join the HJ Tomas decided to also join the HJ and he eventually began to like the HJ and follow there teachings.  Where as Peter had to join the HJ and did not believe in there teachings.  By the end of the film Tomas had changed and did not do swing dancing anymore and he had become a member of the HJ. And at the end of the film Tomas had to choose between his best friend and the Nazis.

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Thomas' decent into being a total jerk then kinda redeeming himself at the end but not really was a product of his characters backstory. At the start of the movie we see Thomas as this fun loving guy who totally digs American jazz music and like the other ¨swingers" introduced throughout the movie he has some resentment to the HJ and Nazis in general but that slowly changes as he voluntarily joins the Hitler youth program because Peter is forced into joining. By this point he has already had some conflict with another one of the main characters in the movie Arvid because of accidentally scratching a record that belonged to Arvid then making an insult about his disability. His time in the HJ does nothing but increase this conflict between the two characters. He also had an internal conflict with his father which also only gets worse through his time in the HJ eventually reaching a boiling point when Thomas reports his father to his CO in the HJ resulting in his father being taken away by Nazis (this also ensures that EVERY family dinner or occasion Thomas will be that one kid that no one likes but they kinda have to deal with him cause hes family and if they don´t then its a possibility that they will get snitche- i mean reported on by Thomas and Hitler will soon be knocking). Eventually Thomas´ jerkishness reaches what you think would be the top it will get when his friend Arvid commits suicide and Thomas doesn´t care i mean the dude was literally the Nazi version of that mysterious guy at every funeral. His Nazi attitude creates a huge wall between him and peter oh and did i mention that it is all because Thomas liked all the new toys he was getting so he became like an all out Nazi and we all know that the only thing worse than a Nazi is a Spoiled Nazi. Anyway after a completely ridiculous fight between him and Peter (who by the way has proved that he is physically superior to Thomas on multiple occasions and even tho Thomas has a billy club there is just no way he would won, Peter LITERALLY throws a full grown man over his shoulder just seconds before the fight but you know the movie needs to be another five minutes long so I guess billy clubs are Peters kryptonite or some stupid reason like that) Thomas then tells Peter to leave because that totally redeems him from trying to strangle him just seconds before. Thomas is seen at the end doing a Nazi salute and screaming ¨Swing Hail¨ which i guess makes being a Nazi ok as long as you do one good thing at the end.

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I think that Thomas experience was hard knowing that he had his dad too ken  away from his own house. his mother was getting slapped . his best friend killed him self and he was a crippled and he hurt his feelings and made him feel bad about himself and what he was and they beet him up on the side walk . After Thomas joined the H J he started to loos his friends and family but after a while he started to felt bad. he was forced to join the H J cause his mom said that she didn't want to have a h j person to stay at the house to keep and eye on them . his family didn't have a whole lot of money so he got a job for a book store . towards the end of the movie called the swing kids Thomas was giving out the books or he thought that they were books but he herd a girl screaming after he gave here the book it turned out that the book had ashes and a ring so saying that  Thomas relies that the HJ was killing there dads and they were also taking them away from home and they were never seen again . But during the movie some of the people who did something bad they were willing to kill them self's although one guy did ended up killing himself by jumping off the bridge because he didn't want to get in trouble for peeing on the HJ  sign so after all i don't think that  joining the HJ is all that bad as long as u treat you and your with respect and actually not be that much of a jerk like Thomas did at the end of the movie . At the end of the movie Thomas gets taking away because he was dancing in a club so his friend to go to a camp to work as a slave

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At the beginning of the movie Thomas was passionate about his friendships with Peter and Arvid and their love for swing. They wanted nothing to do with the HJ and broke the rules calling themselves the "swing boys". When Peter was forced to join the HJ, Thomas joined too because of their pact to stay together no matter what. At this point Thomas still was all about being a swing kid. As time passed, he began to drift away from Peter and Arvid and the swing kids atmosphere. He started to listen to what the Nazis and HJ were all about and agree with that lifestyle. When Arvid refused to play a German song and ranted out on the Nazis, Thomas told him that he was an idiot for doing that and that he was just a cripple. This was the first account of where Thomas's change was very clear. He began to think that Nazis were more superior than others for example, cripples. Thomas liked the power and strength that the Nazis had and because of that was drawn to the lifestyle. One of the biggest decisions that Thomas made was reporting his own father to the Nazis. Another huge decision that Thomas made was to strangle and beat Peter when the HJ raided the swing event. He stops himself from killing Peter and tells him to leave. When the Nazis take Peter away on the bus Thomas stands there and realizes what he has done. Not only did the Nazis cause Thomas to lose his friends and family but himself as well.

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Thomas was a strong, brave, kid that went to a lot of swing clubs with his friends and got into a lot of fights with the H J.  He was slowly losing his friends because of the H J when he joined for his friend peter . The Nazis was slowly brain washing  Thomas at the H J training school and he may seem like he is just in it for fun with his friend but he was slowly turning into one.

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The story of Thomas Berger started as a laid back swing kid. Through his older teenage years Thomas was close friends with Arvid and Peter. Through the story Thomas and Peter both started to slowly drift away from Arvid. Because of this, Thomas and Peter tried to reconnect with their friend Arvid by stealing a radio for him and as a result of this Peter was caught and forced to join the HJ. Feeling responsible for Peter being forced into the HJ, Thomas immediately decided to go along with his friend and join. This was the start to his transformation of becoming a true, evil, Nazi. After this Thomas made several choices that urged his transformation. It started with the growing distance between Thomas and his two friends. Soon after, Thomas reunited with an old swing friend, whom was already a highly ranked HJ. This friendship, of Thomas' choice, created a new bond with the HJ culture and was another influence for Thomas to become a better Nazi. This new found friendship influenced nazification and made Thomas slowly drift apart from his friends. In the film you can observe the effect of the HJ taking a toll on Thomas. There is a big difference between "swing kid" Thomas and HJ Thomas. Another, and final, big change you can observe about Thomas is how, when he becomes an involved HJ member, he urges his friends to become Nazis. In the film Thomas uses his placement in the organization to urge his friends to become a part of it. Also, Thomas' power goes to his head and he doesn't realize that he is ruining his friendship.

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some reasons Thomas got into the HJ so enthusiastically was because of how they brainwashed him into doing what they wanted. in the beginning of the movie Thomas was there to help his friends for anything they had to do, but latter in the movie he began to become power hungry, and wanted to more so he can get a higher rank in the HJ. he probably though that if he does better than everyone else that he would be able to rise to Hitlers level and rule the world. near the middle of the movie Thomas was totally in the HJ and gave away his own father(we saw what happened to him later in the movie).by the end of the movie he wised up to try and let peter get away for the other HJ and continue to be a swing kid. all peter said was ¨i thought it was HJ by day and SWING kids by night.¨ personally i thought Thomas would have wised up and learned to respect his friends and not join the HJ.

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Thomas in the beginning of the movie, was a swing kid by heart. He was rude to his friend Arvid because he was different. He had the attributes of a Nazi from the beginning and no one saw it other than Arvid. When Peter got caught he instantly joined the HJ to be there for his friend. In the Hj he hated it at first, but slowly he started to enjoy it. Thomas was a jerk too Peter when Peter was resisting the Hj near the middle of the movie. For a part of the movie Thomas wasn't in it, because he was turning into a Nazi. Peter was at a party thing when Thomas and other Hj members stormed in he saw Peter and started to fight him. Thomas had Peters life in his hands and let him go because he realized how much he has changed. Thomas end is part in the movie by yelling "swing hail" which means he is a Hj member by day and a swing kid by night.

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Thomas's personality in the start of the film was strongly devoted and in love with every aspect of swing. It enabled him to let loose and escape the outside, Nazi-induced world. Eventually, Thomas's best friend Peter joined the HJ, so Thomas decided to apply as well, after exchanging a universal promise to not let being involved in this organization come between them. However, Thomas becomes increasingly enthusiastic about the practices HJ teaches, and soon is turned against swing and free-will as well as other recruits. Within this new organization, Thomas felt he belonged, whereas with his two close companions Arvid and and Peter, he felt a sense of not really having a place in society. By joining the HJ, it became clear to Thomas what was right and wrong, a sensibility which was desperately needed. Towards the end of the story, Thomas boldly decides to turn his dad in for not fully supporting Nazism and its practices. Also, Thomas turns on Arvid and insults him by calling him a "useless cripple who doesn't matter", this contributed to Arvid's sudden suicide. Eventually, Thomas is a part of the attack group that raids swing clubs, and this particular one, Peter is in. Thomas beats Peter and turns him in to the official guards, who take him away and is never seen again. The original Thomas would have never turned on a friend, broken a promise, or betrayed his father.

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Thomas was a wild hot tempered swing kid. In the beginning  of the film he stuck up for the "outlaws"  but towards the end he fell into the Nazi ways.  In the HJ he was favorited and given gifts for his excellence. The people at The Hitler youth had changed him for the worse. Thomas' major choices in the movie were joining the HJ, pushing Arvid to the limits, turning in his father, and fighting with peter breaking up their friendship.

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Thomas was a swing kid who could not find his place in the world. He spent the majority of his time dancing and hanging out with his two best friends. When Peter was forced to join the HJ, Thomas decided to also. Thomas felt that he fit in at the HJ and it made him feel important. As the film went on, Thomas was transforming into a Nazi and was manipulated into following their ways. In the end of the movie, Thomas to choose between the Nazis and his best friend.

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In the beginning of the film Thomas was a rebellious swing kid. He loved to dance and was always happy. He was a bully of sorts to Arvid because he saw him as less of a person due to his disability. When Peter had to join the HJ Thomas did the same because friends meant a lot to him. In time he came to be another one of the Nazis manipulated followers and turned against Peter. He was confused because he was torn between doing what the Nazis manipulated him to think and being a fun loving swing kid. He came into direct conflict with Peter when the HJ crashed a swing party and Thomas nearly killed Peter. This shows how much he was going through and how confused he was because they had been friends for years and the HJ made Thomas think of Peter as the enemy.

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Thomas was unfiltered and didn't know his boundaries. As the film progressed Thomas's impressionable quality and favoritism for shortcuts made it easy for him to fall into the negative teachings and violent attitude of the HJ culture. Thomas's major choices include his impromptu decision to join the HJ voluntarily.

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Thomas was a young lad who enjoyed dancing to American Swing music and hanging out with his best friends. He was very passionate about dance and didn't follow the rules. When his friend Peter is forced to join the HJ, he goes along with him, not thinking about the consequences. He never let his buddy go through a rough time alone. His rebellious spirit was soon killed by the HJ and the many ideas involved. He became a Nazi. He felt like he could fit in there, and he felt the benefits of being in the HJ were better than those when he was living his life as a swing kid.

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Thomas was a rebellious youth who never fit anywhere and was not really going anywhere in life. When Peter was forced into joining the HJ, Thomas only joined at first to be with him. He initially had the intention of staying a swing kid, but gradually bloomed into a full on Nazi, drifting away from Peter and Arvid. He wanted to make something of himself in order to prove to his parents that he could. At the start, Thomas was the one who fought off a group of HJ boys who were protecting a swing kid, but after joining, he became one of the boys who he used to resent. The propaganda affected Thomas much more immensely than it did for Peter. He believed that the Jews, handicaps, and other people were not as worthy to live in Germany as the Nazis were. One choice he made was to turn in his own father, however, he did not know that any action would actually be taken. Then, he completely went against Arvid and said many awful things to him. Probably the most important choice Thomas made was when he almost strangled Peter after being on duty with the HJ and breaking up a Swing Club. Once he saw his best friend being taken away, Thomas began to reflect on all of his choices and what the HJ really meant. The film ended with Thomas being shown as uncertain where to go from there.

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At the beginning of the film Thomas was a rebellious swing kid who was friends with Peter and encouraged him to try and steal a radio. When Peter was caught Thomas joined the HJ with Peter because he wanted them to stick together. He was much closer to Peter than Arvid and often would make fun of him by what he couldn't do because of his disability. When they first joined the HJ he convinced Peter that they could be HJ kids by day and Swing Kids by night. While Peter resisted the beliefs that they were trying to teach him, Thomas was easily swayed by their words and propaganda and began losing sight of what was originally important to him, like friends and family. Thomas made so much fun of Arvid that he caused him to commit suicide. Thomas gave up his family and stopped going to the swing club with his friends. He tried to arrest Peter at a club and almost killed him before he realized how much the HJ had changed his original beliefs. Towards the end he finally began switching back to his old ways and standing up for his friends.

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Thomas was a rebellious teenager, who seemed to never fit in anywhere he went. He always stood out in his crowd of friends. He stood up for himself and what was right. He was outgoing and was not afraid to do much. He was a typical teenager who secretly would go to swing clubs and dance, well that was until he joined the HJ. Him and Peter both joined but Peter did not go along with the Nazi ways like Thomas did. Thomas later complete;y became a Nazi and even turned in his own father. Towards the end of the film, Thomas slowly came back to being his old self and standing up for the swing kids and his friends.

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Thomas was a teen in Nazi Germany. He was one of many rebellious swing kids. At the beginning of the film he was constantly frustrated with his friend Arvid who always seemed to be showing off his intelligence. Thomas was looking for a place to fit in. When his other good friend Peter was forced to join the Hitler Youth he decided to join as well. When Arvid was beat up by Emile, a leader of the HJ, Thomas fought back in one of his boxing classes, and ended up getting beat up himself. Emile told him that he admired his courage and the two became friends. Thomas had finally found a place where he fit in. He started to believe in Nazi ways of life, he snitched on his father for disagreeing with some of Hitler's laws, yelled at Arvid and told him that cripples would be next on the hit-list after Arvid refused to play traditional German music. Shortly after Arvid, a friend Thomas no longer had committed suicide. Thomas showed up at the funeral and attempted to talk to Peter but got the cold shoulder. He went to Peter's house a while later and was talking to Peters brother and when Peter walked in the two began arguing. Thomas almost threatened to turn his best friend into the Nazis and began to realize what he was doing. When the Gestapo came for his father Thomas was forced to see what he had done, what the Nazis were doing. One night he went with the HJ to bust a swing club and he saw Peter there. He beat him nearly to death and told him to leave, Peter refused and was pulled onto a truck on its wayto a work camp. Thomas in a last attempt to show he was still a good person saluted Peter and yelled "swing heil".

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Thomas was a rebellious youth who just wanted to find somewhere he could fit in. After Peter was forced into joining the HJ, Thomas decided to join up with him. He adopted the attitude of HJ members by day, swing kids by night but this could never work. Thomas slowly drifted away from Peter and Arvid and slowly grew into a Nazi day by day. At the start of the movie, Thomas was willing to fight a group of HJ members to protect a swing kid, who was actually Jewish not a swing kid, but by the end he was one of the people rounding them up. Thomas said horrible things to Arvid which resulted in his suicide. He turned in his own father when the HJ was asking for reports, at the time he thought nothing of it but it resulted in his father being taken away. In addition, he almost killed Peter when he was breaking up the club, but once he saw what the HJ had turned him into he stopped and let him go. After losing his father, being the primary cause of Arvid's suicide, and almost killing his best friend, Thomas began to think about his choices in following along with the HJ.  In the end he no longer knew what to think and was left feeling uncertain and lost.

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Thomas was rebellious but happy cause he was doing what he wanted, dancing to swing music. When his friend Peter is given no choice but to join HJ or die Thomas decided to join with him. As time went on Thomas started enjoying being part of the HJ. Eventually he parted from his lifelong friends and his biggest passion in life. His major choices were to stay with Peter by joining the HJ or to stay with Arvid and continue his passion for dancing. Thomas ended up becoming a Nazi after all they burned all the beliefs and actions of the Nazi way into his brain.

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Thomas was always a rebellious kid, with his swing dancing and listening to american jazz music. One day him and his friend peter decided to steal a woman's radio. Thomas and peter ran from the Nazis but only Thomas got away and peter was then forced to join the HJ. Thomas joined the HJ because he didn't want to leave peter alone. over time Thomas began to act more like a Nazi instead of a swing boy. Thomas never went to swing clubs anymore and turned his father in for not agreeing with Hitlers ways. Thomas was completely brain washed by the Nazis and never looked back to his swing boy days. one night peter went to a swing club all alone and the Nazis came in too shut it down. Peter and Thomas made eye contact and then started beating each other up. in the end Thomas had almost killed his closest friend and he was completely indebted to the Nazis.

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Thomas started out as a teenager who was against the Nazis and everything they did. In the beginning, the Nazis didn't phase him, but towards the end he started falling under the pressure of them. He joined the HJ so enthusiastically because his friend Peter was sent there for something that he contributed in so he felt it was only fair if he joined too. Thomas' major choices were turning against his friends and instead turning towards the Nazis and also starting to follow the Nazis and their actions.

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Thomas' experience at first was rebellious, dancing to swing music at the beginning of the film. He was happy at the start because he was doing what he loved. When Peter was recruited as a HJ, Thomas decided that he should join, too. As the film progressed, Thomas grew more and more attached to the HJ and slowly started to drift away from his lifelong hobby and friends. His two major choices were to join the HJ and stay with Peter, or stay with Harvid and fulfill his lifelong hobby of swing dancing. He had to choose between two best friends. Thomas then began to actually believe in Nazi beliefs and ways.

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Thomas' changed from a swing kid to a HJ scout. He believed the propaganda and was manipulated into doing jobs he normally wouldn't do. Thomas would have fun with his friends Peter and Arvid, listening to Swing music and rebelling from the Nazi's while they would beat up Jews. Thomas started to change drastically from reporting his father to making his friend arvid suicide for calling him names and telling him he wasn't apart of there group. Thomas never believed the propaganda and watched his happy friend change.

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He was from a rich family and was kind of a bully to Arvid but you could still tell he cared about him. He seemed to be willing to do anything for his friends but at the end he started loosing sight of who his real friends were.  He started out rebellious and happy. He joined the HJ because he wanted to be with Peter. He quickly developed the same mind set because he felt like he belonged when he was with the kids in the HJ. I also think one reason he may have been more susceptible is because he didn't seem to have any person horrible experiences involving the Nazis.

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Thomas started out as a rebellious swing kid, but when Peter was forced to join the HJ he started to embrace all the propaganda shown to him. He started to drift away from his friends, and became a bigot against Jews, cripples, and other ¨undesirables¨. But at the end of the film Thomas realizes that he has made mistakes and betrayed all of his friends, but his lesson was in vain as Arvid was dead and Peter was hauled off to a work camp. His major choices were joining the HJ, and turning his back on his friend because of propaganda exposed to him in the HJ.

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Thomas is a teenager who is known as a swing kid. In the beginning of the film, Thomas was rebellious just liike all the other swing kids at the time. But when Peter was forced to join the HJ, Thomas also felt the need to join because he was one of Peter's closes friends. In the HJ Thomas started to adapt to the Nazi beliefs and their ways, and none of his friends were liking it. At the end of the film when Peter is caught a swing dance, Thomas is their with the Nazi police ready to arrest any swing kids caught. thomas is broken from the Nazi way whem Peter is taken away on a truck bound for bad places.

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Thomas started out disagreeing with the Nazi ways.He was a swing kid. Then had to join the HJ because of Peter. He started to follow and agree with the Nazi ways and started turning his back on his friends. At the end of the movie he was at the swing dance and was going to arrest all the people that were participating. Peter was one of the people who go sent off to  work camp. And Arvid ended up killing himself.